Women in Art.--Kind of Painting most practiced by them.--Feminine Employments in early Ages.--The fair Egyptians.--Women of Assyria and Babylon.--Grecian Women.--Sculpture and Painting in Greece.--The Daughter of Dibutades.--The Lover’s Profile.--The first Bas-relief.--Timarata.--Helena.--Anaxandra.--Kallo.--Cirene.--Calypso. --Other Pupils of Grecian Art.--The Roman Women.--The Paintress Laya.--Lala.--Influence of Christianity on Art.--Adornment rejected by the early Christians.--Art degraded for Centuries.--Female Influence among the Nations that rose on the Ruins of Rome.--Wise and clever Princesses.--Anna Comnena.--The first Poetess of Germany.--The first Editress of a Cyclopædia.--The A…
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